Vending-machine.



Y J. RATTNER & A. KORECHOFF.

vENmNG MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT- 22. 1915.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

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1. RATTNER 6L A. KORECHOFF.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLxcATloN FILED ocT.22.1915.

1,178,180. Patented Apr. 4., 1916.

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wma/nto@ v as ATT JACOB RATTNER, OF NEW YORK, AND ADOLPI-I KORECHOFF, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

VENDING-MACI-IINE.

Application filed October 22, 1915.

To all t/tom t may concern:

Be it known that we, JACOB RATTNER and ADOLPH Konnorrorr, subjects of the Emperor of Russia, having signified our intention of becoming American citizens, and residents, respectively, of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, and the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Vending-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements 1n vending machines.

By the use of our invention we are enabled to produce an extremely simple construction of machine for vending chewing gum, candies or like articles, which has common mechanism vfor vending and delivering either one of two kinds of articles by a movetions.

IVe will now describe the preferred emf bodiment of our invention and then point out the novel features in claims. y

In the accompanying ydrawings in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, Figure l is a front elevation of a device embodying our invention; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the deviceshown in Fig. 1, the front wall being removed more clearly to show the interior construction; Fig. 3 is a. section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5 ofFig. 2; Fig. 6 is a `section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 2; Fig. 7 is a section on the line`7 7 of Fig.`2; and Fig. 8 is a section o-n the line 8 8 of Fig. 2. l

Referring now to these drawings, l indicates a casing comprising, as shown,` a body portion la and a cover 1b preferably Aremovable from the body portion and adapted to be connected thereto by means of pins 1 ld which enter apertures le in the body portion. The cover is provided with a suitable window. Obviously the cover may be locked to the body portion in any suitable manner so as to permit the ready removal of the cover and relling of the device.`

As illustrated, the body .portion of our vending machine is divided `up intercompartments 2 and 3 for the reception of chewinggum, candyA or other articles which it is desired to vend. These compartments are preferably disposed directly `above a com- Specication of Letters Patent.

ment of such mechanism iny opposite direc` Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

Serial No. 57,220.

mon delivery chamber 4 which is, as shown, centrally located at the lower end of the device.

Intermediate the material compartments 2 and 3 and the common delivery compartment 4 are disposed suitable coin-controlled means for delivering from one of said compartments 2 and?) an article of gum or the like upon the movement of push handles 5 5 inwardly in opposite directions. As shown in the drawings, a shelf 6 is rigidly secured in the body portion and forms the bottom for the compartments 2 and 3. Said shelf is provided withinsad compartments 2 and 3 with circular apertures 2 3a through which a ball of candy, chewing gum or like material may be permitted to fall by gravity. Directly beneath said shelf, 6 we provide a blocking plate 7 provided with a centrally disposed circular aperture 7a. The said blocking 'plate 7'is guided to move in a guide groove 7 b and is normally retained centrally beneath the shelf 6 by means ofsprings 7e 7f so that the balls of candy, or chewing gum will normally extend through the apertures in the shelf 6 and will rest upon the blocking plate 7.

Obviously if the blocking plate 7 is moved in opposite directions, its circular aperture 7a will register with the apertures 2a 3a in the shelf 6 and a ball ofcandy or like material will be permitted to fall through that aperture with which the aperture 7a so registers. Disposed beneath said blocking plate 7 and likewise guided in guide grooves 8 are two push plates 8 8a which are mounted independently of the blocking plate 7, and are unconnected with each other except that such push plates abut o-ne against the other at 9 just below the center of the device. These push plates may be actuated to move in opposite directions by means of the push handles 5 5 which are connected at their inner ends to said plates, and projrct through the casing at opposite sides thereof. Said `plates 8 8a are retained in their normal centrally-located position by means of springs 5a 5b which aremounted upon said push handles 5 5 and abut at one end against said push platesand at the other end against the sides of the casing. The said push plates have a joint or common aperture Sgwhich is, as shown, elliptical in conformation so as to permit the unobstructed passage therethrough of a ball of candy or like article from either of the compartments irrespective of the direction in which such push plates are moved. Another shelf 10 is disposed below said push plates and is provided with circular apertures 10a-10b registering with the apertures 2--? a of the compartments 2 and 3 and located directly above the ctimmcn delivery compartment 4. The cover 1b is provided with coin slots 11--11a at opposite sides of the material compartments 2 and 3 which communicate with coin slots 12-13 in the shelf 6 so as to permit the dropping of a coin 1i therethrough. rIhe blocking plate 7 and the push plates 8 8 are likewise provided with coin slo-ts TC-Td and SQ-Sf respectively which sl( ts, when such plates are in their normally centrally-located positicn, will register with the slots 12 and 13 in the sheltI 6 and will permit a coin to be inserted within the same so that the push plate and blocking plate will be keyed together, as for example when a coin 1l is inserted through the coin slots l1 and 13, it will '.t'all edgewise through the registering slots Td and 8t of such blocking plate and push plates respectively, will cause the same to be keyed ttgether and will rest at its bottom edge against thc shelf 10. It' now, for example, the push handle 5 be moved inwardly the lcentrally located aperture 7 ot' the blocking plate will be caused to register with the aperture 2"1 of the compartment 2, and a ball of chewing gum, candy or like material will be permitted to pass therethrough. The shelf 10, however, is provided with coin slcts 10c-10d which are so positioned with relation to the registering slots ot' the blocking plate and push plates respectively as to continue the keying engagement only until the centrally-located aperture 7 comes into registry with the aperture 2a of the compartment 2, whereupon the coin will immediately fall through the slot 10b into the compartment 15 at one side ot' the common delivery compartment; the blocking plate will be released from such keying engagement of the coin and will be immediately returned by the spring 7f to its centrally located position so as to cut oii' or block the dropping of more than one ball of chewing gum, candy or like material through the aperture 2n. Obviously, if a coin is inserted through the apertures 11 and 12 on the opposite side of the device it will likewise cause a keying of the said blocking plate and a like delivery through the aperture 3 of the compartment 3 while the coin will fall through the slot 10c in the shelf 10 and into the compartment 16.

Having described our invention, we claim: 1. In a vending machine the combination with a casing provided with two delivery compartments, each having a delivery aperture at its lower end, a blocking plate positioned below said compartments and normally blocking said compartment apertures and having a single delivery aperture adapted upon movement of the blocking plate inV opposite directions to register Vwith one or the other of such compartment apertures and means for normally retaining said blocking plate in blocking position and coin controlled means for moving said blocking plate to cause its aperture to register with either one of said compartment apertures.

2. In a vending machine the combination with a casing provided with two delivery compartments, each having a delivery aperture at its lower end, a blocking plate positioned below said compartments and normally blocking said compartment apertures and having a single delivery aperture adapted upon movement of the blocking plate in opposite directions to register with one or the other of such compartment apertures and springs on each` side of said blocking plate for normally retaining said blocking plate in central, blocking position and coin controlled means for moving said blocking plate to cause its aperture to register with either one of said compartment apertures.

3.. In a vending machine the combination with a casing provided with two delivery compartments, each having a delivery aperture at its lower end, a blocking plate positioned below said compartments and normally blocking said compartment apertures, and having a single delivery aperture adapt-V ed upon movement of theblocking plate in opposite directions to register with one or the other of such compartment apertures, springs on each side of said blocking plate for normally retaining said blocking plate in blocking position, coin slots' at opposite sides of said aperture; push plates mounted independently of said blocking plate and having coin slots registering with the coin slots in said blocking plate to permit the keying of the push plate and blocking plate together and means for causing the unkeying of said blocking and push' plates when the aperture in the blocking plate registers with one or the other apertures of the material compartments. p

4. In a vending machine thecombination with a casing provided with two delivery compartments, each having a delivery aperture at its lower end, a blocking plate positioned below said compartments and normallv blocking said compartment apertures, and having a single delivery aperture adapted upon movement. of the blocking plate in opposite directions to register with one or the other of such compartment apertures, springs on each side of said blocking plate for normally retaining said blocking plate in blocking position, coin slots at opposite sides of said aperture, two push plates mounted to abut one against the other and to be independently movable awav from the point of abutment and to be jointly movable in a direction toward the point of abutment, said plates having coin slots registering with the coin slot-s in said blocking plate to permit the keying of a push plate .and blocking plate together, and means for causing the unkeying of said blocking and push plates when the aperture in the blocking plate registers with one or the other apertures of the material compartments.

5. In a vending machine the combination with a casing provided with two delivery compartments, each having a delivery aperture at its lower end, a blocking plate positioned below said compartments and normally blocking said compartment apertures, and having a single delivery aperture adapted upon movement of the-blocking plate in opposite directions to register with one or the other of such compartment apertures, springs on each side of said blocking plate for normally retaining said blocking plate in blocking position, coin slots at opposite Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the sides of said aperture; push plates mounted independently of said blocking plate and having coin slots registering with the coin slots in said blocking plate to permit the keying of the push plate and blocking plate together; means for causing the unkeying of said blocking' and push plates when the aperture in the blocking plate registers with one or the other apertures of the material compartments, and push handles projecting on opposite sides of the casing and adapted, upon pushing, to cause a registry of the blocking-plate aperture with the compartment aperture remote from said handle.

In witness whereof, we have signed our names to the foregoing specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB RATTNER. ADOLPH KORECHOFF. Witnesses:

STALLo VIN'roN, HELEN V. `HOLMES.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

